Last month, Kansas City police released dashcam video of officers checking the car where Belcher was found sleeping hours before he killed his girlfriend.

Police said they saw Belcher's car parked outside an apartment building on Armour Boulevard just after 3 a.m. When they spoke to him, he identified himself as a Chiefs player and told officers he was going to see a friend who lived in the building and didn't plan to drive anywhere.

Officers spoke with him, asked him to get out of the vehicle, and then told him to go ahead and go upstairs into the apartment. They said it would be the best thing for him to do because "You have a lot to lose."

"They should have checked him out," said Avis Lowe of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. "They should have made sure he didn't have his keys with him so he could drive off. And he took off."

While police could determine Belcher's blood-alcohol level at the time of his death, there is no way to know whether he consumed any of that alcohol after his meeting with police.

Lowe said she worries that the officers may have given Belcher a break.

"I hate to say it. But sometimes it is who you are, and how some of them are treated," she said.

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